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Hello! I've got a few weekend updates to bring you all.

• Freemium week is now over! Time flies!
• A PvP tournament is scheduled for Saturday, June 2nd.

We're going to need participants to formally sign up so that we can calculate the amount of supplies needed to be supplied. To sign up, fill out the following simple application and post it here on the forums:


Thank You.

What is your IGN?
Santa clause obviously...Kaval

What is the kind of armor you think should be provided?
Armour? Fight nekkid, let the viewers get some entertainment if ya know what I mean.

What weapons do you think should be provided?
Weapons?! You're killing me, literally. Man up and use your fists. A little dirt and blood on your knuckles wont do you some harm.

Quote from BalomarDenate

I was just perma-banned by Kaval. Why? Because I tried to figure something out about the power of the admins and he avoided my questions, insulted me, kicked me, and then banned me because I wouldn't quit. Here's why...

Who watches these people that are supposed to moderate the server? These admins have all the power and nobody ever says boo to them because they have the power to ban someone without explanation ANY time they want to. Hawkeye tells them someone took four torches? INSTA BAN. Hawkeye tells them someone took something from a place that had no sign that anyone had been there, or a sign to signify that someone owns it? INSTA BAN. Question their methods? INSTA BAN. I'm not saying I wasn't warned that I was going to be banned, I was warned several times. But I warned because I wouldn't let Kaval sit there an insult me for asking questions. He called me a child because he believes I'm mad about a ban that's about to be over in a few hours. When I tried to explain that wasn't the reason I was questioning the admin system, he said he "didn't give a ****" and that I was just "bitching to deaf ears". So instead of actually listening to my complains, he brushed them off and insulted me. He was disrespectful to me, then kicks me for being disrespectful? When someone calls the admins out for abusing their power, they abuse their power by kicking/banning the person so they don't have to deal with it. I accuse him of abusing his power and he threatens to remove me from the server for accusing him. The whole time he attacked me with insults and flaunted his power instead of simply being mature and sitting down and answering my questions. Instead of answering my questions, he continuously turned it on me and said I was just upset that my friend was banned. When I asked him why I would be mad about a 6 day ban and bring it up only a couple of hours before the ban was up, he said "because you're still pissed about it" even after stating to him, twice before, that I wasn't upset about it. How is that being a mature and neutral admin? Admins are supposed to be neutral in situations instead of defending themselves by threatening to kick/ban rather than simply just answer questions. Kaval came off to me as a power-hungry admin, and when I stated this fact he said I was disrespecting him. Remember that was after he began disrespecting me first.

Kaval you stated you have screenshots? Post them and prove me wrong that you were trying to answer my questions without disrespecting and insulting me.

I'm also well aware that posting this will bring on the heat from all of the admins of the server, but if nobody questions this corrupt judgement system, this power play will continue to go on.

I was waiting for when you would post something, and of course you took things out of context. See during the beginning you were ranting (and yes it was ranting) about unfair bans and how corrupt our system of using hawkeye is. We told you (we being me and Omega) that hawkeye isn’t a corrupt system yet you continued on.

Hawkeye logs every action a player does on the server. If there is a substantial amount of grief yes the player is Perma banned. We don’t need to (as you demanded we start doing then continue our ‘corrupt’ ways) go out of our way to contact a blatant griefer and question them, when the evidence and prove of their actions is right before us. You can’t seem to grasp that and began calling all the admins power abusers. If its minor grief, it’s a tempban, from a few minutes to a week or two depending (again) on the amount of grief done. As for who overlooks us, that would be Ben. Who im sure will happily read through the chat logs. You were hostile to me and omega the entire conversation.

When coming to me saying ‘If someone griefs we don’t give a ****, hawkeye will tell us and we ban’. True saying ‘****’ was probably not needed but I have a rather bad sailor’s mouth I’ve been working on. The bit about a child was when you said ‘Lol. Admins usually say that when they have no answers.’ After having explain to you to stop the ranting over hawkeye, saying that you were giving responses normal children on the server give when they are upset over a friend being banned. Understand most of our players are under the age of 16 (hence the trying to calm my sailors mouth). And what I said was ‘You refuse to listen to any reason and ignore all we tell you, and repeating what we already explained, bitching to deaf ears.’ Not once did I curse at you.

Now you on the other hand were throwing baiting comments at me throughout the entire conversation, telling me to ban you, prove I’m a power abuse, admit I abuse power, etc. because of our banning system. I warned you to calm down many times or I would remove you from the server to take a breather, and I did with a kick. You immideatly come back with the comment ‘now who’s ready to admit they are a power abuser?’. Baiting comments like that are not something we se as acceptable behavior. Continuous comments like 'Seems more Nazi Germany than a legit punishment system to me.' ‘This judgement system is corrupt as ****.’ ‘Remove me. Abuse your power some more since someone is finally standing up to you people.’ ‘So who's ready to admit they abuse their power?’ ‘Grow up dude. You keep turning this on me because you won't admit your own massiah complex.’ ‘Then tempban me. Prove my point about your idiot power-hungry tendencies.’

I told you plenty that if you disagreed with our long lasting working banning system then either bring it up on the forums or leave the server. We do not need or want a player parading about calling every admin a power abuser and bashing our server set up because they cannot understand it. Nor do we need to put up with abuse from a player simply because he hides behind claims of power abuse. You may be able to do this in other servers but not at this one. And knowing for a fact most servers would have put up with a 1/8th of what you said before banning and done it in a much harsher tone then I told you, consider yourself lucky. Hopefully you will speak in a more respectable calm manner the next server you join.

Quote from BalomarDenate

I couldn't help but notice you started the screenshots AFTER you stopped being disrespectful. That's legit. Not like anyone is going to believe a lowly player over an admin. It's whatever, dude. I'm over it. This all could have been avoided if you would have just answered my simple question: Why do you guys ban people without giving them a chance to explain their actions. You use Hawkeye and if it shows they grief, whether intentional or unintentional, you ban then. That was the whole issue. All of this could have been avoided if you didn't avoid the question. But instead you continuously stated that whether it was intentional or not, if Hawkeye says they griefed you insta-ban. And THAT is "guilty until proven innocent". If it's a "survival" server and you come across a house that doesn't have a sign or "res" signifying it's owned by someone, and somebody takes stuff that they need to SURVIVE, they still get banned. But you don't know that was their intention because you ban them without question, and then don't tell then what they did wrong so they can learn from their mistakes. The example I used earlier in game still applies. If a child writes on a wall and you punish him days later and simply say "you were writing", how is he supposed to learn what he did wrong and fix it? You had said this was all because I was just "pissed" because my friend got banned, but if something was griefed by my friend, he has the integrity to fess up to it and fix what he broke. Instead, you presumed him guilty and banned him. I'm not upset over that. I'm upset over the fact that you do nothing to prevent this from happening again. Rules need to be put in place. If something is griefed that has a sign stating it's owned, that's one thing. If you're walking 2k blocks away from spawn and see what appears to be an abandoned house and take what you need to survive on your owned, you're automatically branded a criminal and banned from the server. THAT is what I think is wrong. Admins need no justification on what they do because nobody is given the chance to plead their case before they're banned. I guess simply jailing someone until an admin has a chance to talk to them is out of the question.

...well if seems you don't even know the server rules if you think its okay to grief and loot.


Griefing here means breaking any blocks you did not originally place and had no permission to tamper with, OR placing blocks within a marked out area that is not assigned to you, tampering with someone else’s area by placing blocks. Looting means going into people chests and taking over claim of their items. Both are not allowed in this server, and you must survive by getting thing yourself.

That means for anywhere. No place in our rules does it say ‘its okay if it looks abandoned!’ because any home without the owner currently online and within it looks abandoned and any player may take a leave of absence with confidence knowing their items and home will still be there when they return. That excuse does not work here nor will it ever. And again, as I told you before, we do not have to go to the player who say broke 10k blocks in a griefing case and go ‘Explain why you did this?’. The warnings are the first things at spawn telling them if they do this, this will be the outcome. It is not my, nor any of the staff’s fault, if they do not comply with our rules and warnings.